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A. M. HENRY.

SHOOTING GALLERY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 19. I910.

L1 93,360 PatentedAug.1,1916

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SHOOTING GALLERY. .APPLICATIONFILED SEPT. 19. I9l0.

' Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

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AUGUSTUS M. HENRY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOOTING-GALLERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 191$.

Application filed September 19, 1910. Serial No. 582,609.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUoUsTUs M. HENRY,

residing at the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shooting-Galleries, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to games of skill, and more particularly to shooting galleries; either for providing private amusement or for public use in consideration of a fee or charge, or otherwise.

It has for its principal object the embodiment of the essential features of any known game or contest, such as baseball, football, lacrosse, polo, cricket, etc., in a shooting gallery or the like, so constructed that any person may exercise his skill or aim, in connection therewith, to effect a recordation of various characteristic features of the particular game thus embodied.

The specific object of the construction disclosed herein is to provide, in connection with a fixed target, a movable target, which when struck while in registry with designated portions of the fixed target will cause a recordation visible to an operator, so that the operator may use the movable target to indicate in part the result of a shot or series of shots;

Many other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangements of parts which will be exemplified in the description hereinafter set forth, the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown a possible embodiment of this invention adapted to be used, with the charac teristic indicia thereon suggestive of a baseball game, as a shooting gallery, Figure l is a front elevation of the'same; F ig'. 2 is a rear elevation of the same; ig. 3 is a detail sectional view of a part of the apparatus disclosed, taken on the line x-w of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrow; Fig. 4C is a view, partly in perspective and partly in plan, showing certain of the additional features of construction which could be advantageously used in any embodiment of this invention; Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation, showing certain of the details of the mechanism disclosed in Fig. 4.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring now particularly to the embodiment of this invention herein disclosed in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, 1 represents a supporting board, adapted as shown in Fig. 1 to face any person positioned a suitable distance therefrom, desiring to test his skill with reference thereto. In the present instance, such person is preferably equipped with an air-rifle, fire-arm or the like. 2 represents a target at which he directs his efforts, and is comprised by a plurality of saparatesegments (here marked as shown (I: 777 K ,7 L R 77, it 2 7 M L 73 l 377, (4 G77) Each of these segments is respectively mounted upon an independent shaft 4: and is adapted to reciprocate in its own sleeve 5, which sleeves are mounted as shown in supporting board 1. Each shaft 4: is provided with a collar 6, which collar, under the influence of expansile spring 7, normally abuts against sleeve 5. At the rear end of shaft 4t is fixedly mounted a finger 8, adapted to accommodate a signal 9, which signal is adapted, in case its corresponding segment of target 2 is struck through the efforts of the person in front of the board who is testing his skill as aforesaid, to indicate to the operator behind supporting board 1 that a particular segment has been sOstruck.

An operator, mentioned above, is supposed to be provided preferably situated behind said supporting board 1, for the purpose of manipulating the signaling apparatus hereinafter immediately described, or for manipulating any other signaling apparatus,-which may be provided, in imitation of a particular athletic contest, to the extentto which the featuresof such athletic contest may be desired to be imitated. In the present instance, there is shown (Fig. 2) a plurality of fixed devices, one situated behind each of the openings 10 which are provided at the base-points on the front face of supporting board 1. Each of these devices comprises in this embodiment a signaling member 11, pivoted in the rear of supporting board 1 as at 12, preferably adjusted in such a manner that its pivot will act as a friction device to maintain the same in any adjusted position; each of said signalingmembers 11 terminating beyond its said pivot in an operating handle 13 as shown. There is preferably provided in connection with each signaling member 11 a stop 14 and a stop 15, as shown, for limiting its movement on its said pivot. In this embodiment, on the face of each signaling member 11 (different areas of which will show through the adjacentopening 10 at different adjustments of handle 13) are provided two different colors or markings, indicating, respectively, whether, in accordance with any particular set of rules devised for this embodiment of this invention,a man is or is not safe on that particular base as a result of a segment of target 2 being struck by a person testing his skill as aforesaid, the safety of such man representing one of the recordations of such re-.

sult. 'A characteristic set of the rules just referred to, appropriate as aforesaid to the embodiment herein disclosed, could conveniently be assumed to provide, first, that, upon the reciprocation of a signal 9 bearing either of the indicia 1, 2, or 3, a man is advanced by the operator (through the proper actuatlon of the appropriate signaling members 11) one base from such mans former position; second, that, upon the reciprocation of a signal 9 bearing either of the indicia C, L or R, such man is advanced by the operator two bases from his former position; third, that, upon the reciprocation of the signal 9 bearing the index H, such man is advanced by the operator four bases from his former position, or is advanced from his former position sufliciently to complete a run around the complete circuit of bases; and, fourth, that the operator,

-while actuating any signaling members 11 in accordance with the rules above, will cause, by mechanism hereinafter to be described, a traveling ball to move over the front face of supporting board 1 to the appropriate position thereon, the signals 1, 2,77 3,77 0777 L, R I177 to and corresponding w1th areas on sald front face of supporting board 1 marked, respectively, First base, Second base, Thirdbase, Center field, Left field, Right field and Home run as shown although these rules and these markings are obviously capable of being amplified, simplified or wholly changed at will, even with reference to the embodiment herein disclosed, based in this instance upon the game of baseball.

It is to be understood that, in lieu of the above-described mechanical signaling de- T vices at the base-points on the front of supporting board 1, other mechanical signaling means could be substituted.

It is to be understood, further, that many additional and supplementary scoring and recording devices, adapted to complement any additional and supplementary rules adopted, could be incorporated in any embodiment, and be within the scope, of the herein-disclosed invention.

In this embodiment of. this invention, there is shown in connection with the above devices a movable disk,corresponding to the ball or object of play in an actual contest. This ball is supported as hereinafter immediately described over the front of supporting board 1, and the movements of the same are in the present instance adapted to be controlled by the operator through the mechanism now to be disclosed, a description of which mechanism (although other and totally different mechanisms might be utilized in this connection, provided it be desired to incorporate in any embodiment of this invention a ball-element which is mechanically controlled) follows: Said ball 16 is preferably comprised by an integral sheet of cardboard or other comparatively penetrable material, (the object of which, in this embodiment of this invention, is to allow a bullet or the like to perforate such ball 16, in order that such perforation may indicate to a person testing his skill as aforesaid, and who has caused one of the segments of target 2 to reciprocate, that he has actually struck said segment coincidentally with the passing of said ball 16 thereover). Said ball 16 is accommodated in frame 17, a terminus of rod 18. Rod 18 is fixedly attached to lever 19 of the pantograph system mounted as at 20 in the rear of supporting board 1, which pantograph system is comprised by levers 19, 20, 21 and 22. Knob 23, mounted in such system at the junction of levers 21 and 22, plays over a miniature field 24:, attached to the rear of said supporting board; and said knob 23, by its movements over such field 2 1, directs the movements of ball 16 over the large field on the front of supporting board 1.

While a ball is here provided which derives its different significatory qualities from its capability for mechanical movement by virtue of a type of mechanism specifically disclosed, it is to be understood that any other type of mechanism for attaining this result in an apparatus of the general nature herein described is included in the scope of this invention.

It will thus be seen in this embodiment of this invention, (when it is remembered that upon a bullet striking a segment of target 2 a signal 9, visible to the operator, will begin vibrating as aforesaid), that said operator,.by manipulating the knob 23 mentioned in the second preceding paragraph, will be able to register on the front of supporting board 1 one result of any effort made by a person testing his skill as aforesaid; and that, assuming the adoption of a set of governing rules as aforesaid, the operator will be able to properly manipulate said knob 23, in accordance with an actual knowledge on said operators part of the true result of any effort of a person testing his skill as aforesaid,even including a knowledge on the part of said operator of whether or not ball 16 was properly hit when crossing target 2 (if it be desired to establish, as one of said rules, an understanding that a segment, to cause an effective vibration of its signal 9, must be Struck as aforesaid when and only when ball 16 is crossing target 2), by reason of the fact that the operator will know, from the nature of the pantograph, that, when knob 23 is crossing the plate on the miniature field 24, ball 16 is at the same time passing over target 2 on the large field on the front of supporting board 1.

It will thus be seen that in this embodi ment of this invention I have provided a device of the nature described which is capable of attaining the ends and objects hereinbefore mentioned, and which, in addition, is practical, simple of construction, easy of operation, and preventive of fraud as against any person testing his skill as aforesaid.

Referring now to Fig. 4, wherein I have disclosed an additional feature (in this instance partly electrical) adapted to make the reciprocation of said signals 9 substantially automatically restrained except only when said ball 16 is actually crossing said target 2, which feature might with advantage be used in connection with this or other embodiments of this invention, there are shown, preferably disposed upon a miniature field 24, portions of levers 21 and 22 of the pantograpln and knob 23. 25 represents a washer, and 26 a retaining screw extending through said washer 25, said knob 23 and said levers 21 and 22, into a stud-pin 27. Said studpin 27 is provided with a nose 28 and has set therein a taper-pin 28, preferably insulated as shown. The distance coinciding with the axis of plunger 29 indicated between the termini of the double-pointed arrow A-B represents the path over which said studpin 28 travels while ball 16 is passing over target 2. Plunger 29 reciprocates in bracket 30, with shoulder 31 of said plunger normally abutting said bracket as shown under the influence of eXpa-nsile spring 32. Plunger 29 has fixedly positioned therein, preferably insulated as shown, a bent leaf-spring 33, to which is attached as shown a terminus of a wire forming a part of the electric circuit hereinafter described. 34 represents a contact, adapted, upon the entrance of leafspring 33 in slot 35 of said contact, to bridge a gap at this point in the said electric circuit. Contact 34 is fixedly positioned in the insulation shown, which is suitably set in miniature field 23; said contact carrying a binding-post 36, as shown, to which is attached a terminus of another wire forming a part of said circuit. The gap just mentioned is one of two gaps in said circuit, which passes as shown through lamp 37 and solenoid 38. A second mechanical circuit-breaker is interposed in this said circuit, being comprised, (1) by bell-crank lever 39, pivoted as at 39 and carrying at one end thereof post 40 and at the other end thereof leaf-spring 41 (between which leaf-spring 41 and said bell-crank lever is attached as shown a terminus of still another wire forming a partof said circuit); and (2) by a forked leaf-spring 42, the jaws of which are adapted to have leaf-spring 41 pass therebetween at certain times (leafspring 42 having attached thereto as shown a terminus of still another wire forming a part of said circuit); these elements being preferably positioned in insulation suitably set in said miniature field 24. Plunger 29 carries therein a taper-pin 43 as shown, which taper-pin carries at the other end thereof, rigidly fixed thereon, a rod 44 which terminates in a fork, here shown as provided with insulating material, adapted, with the plunger in its normal springpressed position as shown, to normally keep closed the gap in the circuit between leafsprings 41 and 42; which normal position of plunger 29,it will be noticed, at .the same time maintains open the first-mentioned gap in said circuit. It will be obvious that when both gaps are closed, as at certain positions of the mechanism just-described they are so closed, the circuit, passing through the source of electrical supply 45, will be complete with reference to lamp 37 and solenoid 38. Lamp 37 is preferably so positioned at some point on supporting board 1 as to be visible to a person testing his skill as aforesaid; adapted by its illumination, provided the rules mentioned above be established, to inform such person that during such illumination ball 16 is properly passing over target 2.

Solenoid 38 is provided in this embodiment with an armature 46 as shown. Frame 46 is intended to be positioned on the rear of supporting board 1 in the shown relation to the seven shafts 4, which are here illustrated in section and which are hereinbefore described (Fig. 3) as passing through sleeves 5 positioned in supporting board 1 and as respectively carrying on their front ends individual segments of target 1. It will be remembered that the reciprocation, or vibration, of any of these segments, transmitted through its shaft 4 to its signal 9, informs the operator that such segment has been struck as aforesaid. Frame 46 is parallelly supported upon links 47 and links 48 in the manner illustrated, links 48 being slotted as shown. Armature 46, adapted to reciprocate in its retaining bracket'49, carries a shoulder 50, which in turn carries at either side a pin 48. Each pin 48 rides in the slot in the adjacent link 48. Frame 46 is normally held in the position shown, 2'. 6., flush against shoulders 6 and shafts 4, through the action of expansible spring 51, disposed between shoulder 50 and bracket 49. NVhen solenoid 38 is properly energized, however, armature 46 is drawn through bracket 49, against the influence of spring 51, carrying with it shoulder 50 and pins 48, pins 48 sliding in slotted links 48 and causing frame 46 to parallelly move away from shoulders 6 and shafts 4, to allow of the vibration of any signal 9 upon the striking by a bullet of the latters complementary segment. The movement of said frame 46, when said solenoid is so energized, is limited by the abutting of a bifurcation of the same against a stop 52, .as indicated. It is obvious that, with the frame 46 in the normal position illustrated (each of its seven bifurcated portions hugging a shaft 4 and maintaining the collar 6 of each said shaft rigid between said bifurcation and the cooperant sleeve 5) no signal 9 will be capable of vibration, irrespective of whether its corresponding segment of target 2 is or is not struck as aforesaid.

By the provision of this mechanism and its accompanying circuit (in the herein disclosed or any other embodiment of this in vention), the object is attained of only allowing vibrations of a signal 9 when ball 16 is passing over target 2; and before describing the operation of said mechanism, it willv aid in clearness to refer to Fig. 2 of the drawings and call attention to the fact that in the movements of knob 23 over miniature field 24, the distance pp on the miniature field of Fig. 2 corresponds to the distance A-B, hereinbefore mentioned, shown between dotted lines in Fig. 4. The operation of the embodiment disclosed, then, is substantially as follows: WVhen knob 23 is moved over the miniature field 24 toward the"plate on said field, ball 16 is making the same travel in view of a person testing his skill as aforesaid, who is supposedly aiming at target 2 with the expectation of striking the same as ball 16 passes thereover. As knob 23 advances, nose 28 of stud-pin 27 abuts the adjacent end of plunger 29 and forces the same forward against the influence of spring 32, said plunger carrying with it leaf-spring 33. As said nose 28 reaches the point A in its forward movement, ball 16 is just passing over target 2; at the same instant leaf-spring 33 enters slot 35 in contact 34 and closes one of the two gaps in the electrical circuit above-mentioned. With the forward movement of plunger 29, the forked end of rod 44 is carried forward with said plunger, leaving, however, the second gap in said circuit likewise closed, as it was normally on account of the frictional relation between leafsprings 41 and 42. Immediately thereupon, all gaps in said circuit being then closed, lamp 37 will glow as aforesaid and frame 46 will be drawn away from collars 6 and shafts 4, so that a signal 9 may vibrate upon the striking of its corresponding segment of target 2 as aforesaid.

It will be seen that, during the continued passing of nose 28 over the distance AB, leaf-spring 33 will continue to advance through slot 35 of contact 34, and thereby keep said circuit closed. When, however, said nose 28 reaches the point B, taper-pin 28 will impinge against post 40 of hellerank lever 39, and, thereupon, with the further advance of knob 23 (ball 16 simultaneously clearing target 2 and becoming analogous to what may be termed, in baseball parlance, a passed ball, that is, assuming a position further removed from the pitchers position than the distance of the catchers position therefrom,) said forward movement of knob 23 will break the contact between leaf-springs 41 and 42 and thereby open a gap in said circuit. Upon the return of knob 23 to the pitchers position on miniature field 24 (ball 16 also at the same time returning to the pitchers position on the large field on the front of supporting board 1), plunger 29, under the influence of its spring 32, will withdraw leaf-spring 33 from slot 35 of contact 34; whereupon frame 47 will return to its normal position, to render said target again temporarily inoperative. As plunger 29 continues its movement away from contact 34, it carries with it rod 44, and near the limit of such spring-impelled movement of said plunger the forked portion on the end of said rod 44 co-acts with post 40 of bellcrank lever 39 to swing the latter on its pivot 39, and thereby close the gap in said circuit between leaf-springs 41 and 42. It will thus be seen that in this embodiment of this feature of this invention, the gap between leaf-springs 41 and 42 will not be closed, on the return movement of plunger 29, until after the gap between leaf-spring 33 and contact 34 has been opened; and that, on the return movement of ball 16 over target 2, said target 2 will be again ineffective to register vibrations as aforesaid.

It is to be understood that in any embodiment of this invention the term man, as used in this, specification and the appended claims, is intended to refer to an element in such embodiment coincident with a human factor in any contest; and that the term ball, as used in this specification and the appended claims, is intended to refer to an' element in such embodiment coincident with fee a projectile object of play, or inanimate factor, in any such contest.

It will thus be clear, from the various devices herein described and their respective alternates herein referred to, that there is disclosed as the broad basis of this invention a shooting gallery or game of skill comprising fundamentally the novel combination of, first, a diagram constructed substantially in accordance with a known athletic contest; second, a single means or a plurality of means for arbitrarily recording the efforts of a person testing his skill in connection therewith; and, third, a single means or a plurality of means, (either manually or automatically, and substantially in visibly, operable), for graphically recording such effort, in accordance with any set of governing rules adopted, by means of characteristic man and ball reproductions of the actual man and ball movements which would take place in substantially the same situation in an actual contest. And it is to be understood in this connection that either of the said man and ball factorial significances Without the other may within the scope of this invention be embodied in an apparatus to be used substantially as herein-described. And it is further to be understood in this connection that a plurality of man factorial significances or a plurality of ball factorial significances, or a plurality of both, may within the scope of this invention be incorporated as aforesaid in any embodiment of the same; for example, relating respectively to a plurality of different ball-elements or a plurality of different man-'elements.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and inasmuch as many apparently widely different embodi ments of this invention, and of the different features thereof, and of the sample rules herein mentioned, could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is in tended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the inven tion which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member bearing characteristic indiciasuggestive of a contest; resiliently mounted supporting means arranged on said supporting member; target-means carried by said supporting means; means adapted to indicate movements and positions of a projectile factor in such contest and particularly adapted to delinea'te movements and positions with relation to the location of said target-means; and signaling means adapted to be actuated by the striking of said target-means during certain of such delineations to indicate the significance of any such striking.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member hearing characteristic indicia suggestive of a contest; normally resilient supporting means arranged on said supporting member; target-means carried by said supporting means; means adapted to indicate movements and positions of a projectile factor in such contest and particularly adapted to delineate movements and positions of said factor with relation to the location of said target means; and means normally adapted to restrain the resiliency of said supporting means but adapted to cease such restraint during certain of such delineations.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member hearing characteristic indicia suggestive of a contest; normally resilient supporting means arranged on said supporting member; target-means carried by said supporting means; means adapted to indicate movements and positions of a projectile factor in such contest and particularly adapted to delineate movements and positions of said factor with relation to the location of said target-means; means normally adapted to restrain the resiliency of said supporting means; and means adapted upon the striking of said target-means during certain of such delinea't tions to cease such restraint and to allow said target-means to become indicatory of the significance of such striking.

4. In a shooting gallery, in combination, a supporting member bearing characteristic indicia suggestive of a contest; target-means arranged on said supporting member; means adapted to indicate movements and positions of a projectile factor in such contest and particularly adapted to delineate movements and positions of said factor with relation to the location of said target-means; and an apparatus comprising a means adapted to normally prevent said target-means from registering the striking thereagainst of a bullet, and a device adapted to co-act with said indicating means whereby during certain 'of such delineations said target-means are rendered capable of registering the striking thereagainst of a bullet.

5. In a shooting gallery, in combination, a supporting member bearing characteristic indicia suggestive of a contest; target-means arranged on said supporting member; means adapted to indicate movements and positions of a projectile factor in such contest and .particularly adapted to delineate movements apparatus comprising a spring-pressed means adapted to normally prevent said target means from registering the striking thereagainst of abullet, and an electrical device adapted to co-act with said indicating means whereby during certain of such delmeations said target means are rendered .capable of registering the striking thereagainst of a bullet.

6. In a shooting gallery, in combination,

ra'supporting member bearing characteristic indicia suggestive of a contest; target-means arranged on said supporting member; means adapted to indicate movements and positions of a projectile factor in such contest and particularly adapted to delineate movements and positions of said factor with relation to the location of said target-means; and an apparatus comprising a spring-pressed means adapted to normally prevent said target-means fromregistering the striking thereagainst of a bullet, an electromagnetic device adapted when energized to render said targetaneans capable of registering the striking thereagainst of a bullet, a springpressed contact-device adapted normally to maintain open the circuit for energizing said electromagnetic device, and means carried by said indicating means adapted during certain of such delineations to co-act With said contact-device to temporarily maintain closed said circuit.

7. In an apparatus of the class described, 1n combination, a supporting member contammg a representation of a field of contest; a movable target-means adapted to reproduce the characteristic movements of a projectile factor in such contest; permanently-located target-means arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain normally ineffective to give kinetic indication thereof; and means adapted to maintain said second mentioned target-means normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with a predetermined relation thereto of said movable target-means.

D S. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member contaming. a representation of a field of contest; a movable target-means adapted to reproduce the characteristic movements of a projectile factor in such contest; permamaintain nently-located target-means arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain normally ineffective to give kinetic indication thereof; manually operable means for controlling the movements and positions of said movable target-means; and means, actuated at predetermined times by said last-mentioned means, adapted to said second-mentioned targetmeans arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain normally mefiective to give kinetic indication thereof; manually operable means for controlling the movements and positions of said movable target-means; and means, actuated at predetermined times by said last-mentioned means, adapted to maintain said secondmentioned target-means normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with a predetermined relation thereto of said movable target-means; said manually operable means being adapted. for further actuation to cause said movable target-means to travel to any of said indicia on said supporting member to give further indication of the result of said striking.

10. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member containing a representation of a field of contest and characteristic indicia; a movable targetmeans adapted to reproduce the characteristic movements of a projectile factor in such contest; signaling means visible to an operator; permanently-located target-means arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain normally ineffective to cause any actuation of said signaling means; manually operable means for controlling the movements and positions of said movable target-means; and means, ac-

tuated at predetermined times by said lastinentioned means, adapted to maintain said second-mentioned target-means normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with a predetermined relation thereto of said movable target-means; said manually operable means being adapted for further actuation to cause said movable target-means to travel to any of said indicia on said supporting member to give further indication of the particular area of said second-mentioned target-means to give kinetic indication thereof; and means adapted to maintain said multiplepart-target normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with a predetermined relation thereto of said one-part-target.

12. In apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting means carrying a representation of a heretofore known field of contest, a multiple-part-target, a onepart-target, one of said targets being fixed upon said supporting member and located significantly adjacent a portion of said representation and the other of said targets being adapted to have movements with relation to said fixed target and adapted by said movements to indicate a characteristic path of travel of a factor in said contest, and operating mechanismfor controlling the movements of said moving target.

13. In apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member, a multiple-part-target, a onepart-target, one of said targets being fixed upon said supporting member and the other of said targets being adapted to have movement with relation to said fixed target, and a common operating mechanism adapted, first, to con trol the movement of said movable target with relation to said fixed target thereby to prepare for a shot, and, second, to control the movement of said movable target with relation to significant portions of said supporting member thereby to indicate the result of such shot.

14c. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member containing a representation of a field of contest; a one-part-target adapted to reproduce the characteristic movements of a projectile factor in such contest; a multiple-part-target arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain normally ineffective to give kinetic indications thereof; manually operable means for controlling the movements and positions of said one-parttarget; and means, actuated at predetermined times by said last-mentioned means, adapted to maintain said multiple-parttarget normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with I a predetermined relation thereto of said onepart-target.

15. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member containing a representation of a field of contest and characteristic indicia; a one-parttarget adapted to reproduce the characteristic movements of a projectile factor in such contest; a permanently located multipleparttarget arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain normally ineffective to give kinetic indication thereof; manually operable means for controlling the movements and positions of said one-part-target; and means, actuated at predetermined times by said last-mentioned means, adapted to maintain said multiplepart-target normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with a predetermined relation thereto of said one part-target; said manually operable means being adapted for further actuation to cause said one-part-target to travel to any of said indicia on said supporting member to give further indication of the result of said striking.

16. In an apparatus of the class described, in combination, a supporting member containing a representation of a field of contest and characteristic indicia; a one-parttarget adapted to reproduce the character istic movements of a projectile factor in such contest; signaling means visible to an operator; a permanently-located multiple-parttarget arranged on said supporting member and adapted when struck to remain nor mally ineffective to cause any actuation of said signaling means; manually operable means for controlling the movements and positions of said one-part-target, and means, actuated at predetermined times by said last-mentioned means, adapted to maintain said multiple-part-target normally ineffective as aforesaid, except when the same is struck simultaneously with a predetermined relation thereto of said one-part-target; said manually operable means being adapted for further actuation to cause said one-parttarget to travel to any of said indicia on said supporting member to give further indication of the particular part of said multiplepart-target so struck.

17. In apparatus of the class described, in combination, means carrying a representation of a heretofore known field of contest, a plurality of separate targets, and means adapted to cause one of said targets to have movements relatively of the other target, said movements being adapted to indicate a characteristic path of travel of a factor in said contest.

18. In apparatus of the class described, in combination, means carrying a representation of a heretofore known field of contest, a first target, a second target, and means adapted to cause said first target to have movements relatively of said second target and adapted by said movements to indicate a characteristic path of travel of a factor in said contest whereby during such move ments said first target will move transversely of said second target.

19. In apparatus of the class described, in combination, means carrying a representation of a heretofore known field of contest, a one-part target, a multiple-part target, and means adapted to cause said one-part target to have movements relatively of said In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, multiple-part target whereby during such 111 the presence of two Witnesses. movements said one-partrtarget will move i T r transversely of said multiple-part target, AUGUSTUS HILARL 5 said movements being adapted to indicatea WVitnesses:

characteristic path of travel of a factor of C. HOWARD, said contest. 1 .UENRY JEOEFF.

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